Accessing Material Culture by Following Intermediary Objects

Abstract

Contents Preface IX Chapter 1 Ethnography: An Introduction to Definition and Method 1 Loshini Naidoo Chapter 2 Ethnographic Field Notes and Reflexivity 9 Päivi Eriksson, Elina Henttonen and Susan Meriläinen Chapter 3 Event Focused Fieldwork and Comparative Methodology: Exploring Ethnic Boundaries and Cultural Variation 23 Gunnar Haaland Chapter 4 Natural Interactions in Artificial Situations: Focus Groups as an Active Social Experiment 57 Jakob Demant Chapter 5 Beginning with the Self to Critique the Social: Critical Researchers as Whole Beings 73 Nancy Taber Chapter 6 Accessing Material Culture by Following Intermediary Objects 89 Dominique Vinck Chapter 7 A Service Value Creation Model and the Role of Ethnography 109 Michitaka Kosaka Chapter 8 Food and Nutrition in Embera Indigenous People 131 Javier Rosique, Aída Gálvez, María Teresa Restrepo, Luz Mariela Manjarrés and Erika Valencia Chapter 9 From Gambits to Case Data 157 Keith V. Bletzer VI Contents Chapter 10 Syntax Development: The Relevance of Realistic Methods 189 Maria Luisa Silva Chapter 11 Informal Learning Amongst Pediatric Rehabilitation Teams – An Ethnography of Tea-Room Talk 209 Cynthia Hunter and Adam Scheinberg Chapter 12 Visual Mapping of Clinical Procedures Using Ethnographic Techniques in Medical Device Design 223 Mary Beth Privitera, Todd Abruzzo and Andrew Ringer Chapter 13 Written Reminiscences and Media Ethnography: Television Creating Worldview 233 Jukka Kortti Chapter 14 Digital Auratic Reproducibility: Ubiquitous Ethnographies and Communicational Metropolis 253 Massimo Canevacci